Atheism is a religion?

"Atheism is a religion like baldness is a hairstyle." Borrowed from Two Cult Survivor, who says "It's not. But it is. But it's not." He points out that if we accept freedom of religion, the decision not to follow any religion is a "religious choice" deserving of equal respect and noncoercion.

"When a theist claims atheism is a religion, the appropriate response ... is to say 'You do not want me forcing my religion on you or your children, and I do not want you forcing your religion on me or mine.'"

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Yes; to borrow a famous quote, religious believers tend to be "atheists" with respect to all those other false gods. (They only accept, and except, their own.) Atheists simply don't make that exception.

And like being healthy is like harboring yet another strain of a common virus that occurs in many varieties.

Speaking of viruses, flu shots (or inhaled FluMist, for people between 2 and 49) are a Good Thing:

(This is from "Get Your Flu Shot", Katie McKissick, "Symbiartic" blog at Scientific American. She writes about effective and ineffective messaging; pictures with needles or screaming babies don't encourage people to get vaccinated.)